Life, the Universe, and Everything

I know the answer to that is 42. I study English, I have read my fair share of books. :P

I don't just read, I also write. Not just blogs, but mostly fan fiction, poems, and every once in a while I'll try my hand at a script. I'm a head of the Creative Writing Workshop at our department and enjoying teaching people something about creative writing very much.

Why I decided to write about this today, you ask? I'm currently trying to adapt The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I saw it last weekend while I was combing the dreadlocks out of a friend of mine's hair (who also happens to be a head of CWW) and I fell in love. Should've watched it ages ago, which I knew already, but meh. I'm way behind with most things anyway.

Anyway, my department also has their own drama club, called the Understudies. The friend I mentioned last paragraph has been asking me to join, I told him I'd audition if they were to perform that (I'd love to play Columbia, would like Janet if I could actually sing and act), got shot down by the current assistant director because we'd only have one set to work with, and I took it as the challenge it was and will rewrite Rocky Horror now.

Let's see how that works out.

For the rest, I've still got so many stories I should finish that I'll be busy over the summer working on both academic works (besides thesis and Digital Art and Culture, I want to try and write at least one article to see if I could possibly publish something someday) and fictional works (I swear I will never write porn about two friends of mine again... until the next time I've got inspiration :P ).

I swear I was going to write something inspiring today. Ah well. I'll go back to rewriting Rocky Horror Picture Show.

Oh, at the late night, double-feature, picture show...

If anyone saw my motivation, please ship it back to me.

I've been at university for four hours, trying to get stuff done, and I'm failing hard.

First, there was socializing to do. Friends I hadn't seen in weeks, people I hadn't met sitting with those friends, you know the deal. It's scary but I'm getting better at it.

Then, I spent about two hours reading a Livejournal community, reading a couple of fan fictions, occasionally opening the book I really should be reading (Textual Poachers by Henry Jenkins, if anyone's interested), looking up what DOMA actually is and what Wendy Davis did, figuring out what subjects I want to take next year to improve my background knowledge of America, and now I'm writing a blog.

I really want to read this book and write my essays/thesis, I just can't get myself to actually do it. It sucks.

On the other hand, I am listening to Kellin Quinn now and that's entertaining.

Okay, so I might be a bit of a Kellin Quinn fangirl right now. He's from the band Sleeping With Sirens, I am still amazed he's not a girl, but he's so fucking hot.

(I just spent ten minutes finding that picture and surfing on Tumblr. See?)

Anyway, my personal theory is that Kellin is a Dominant, and Vic Fuentes from Pierce the Veil is a submissive, and they would be really good if they did it together. Although I find it a bit creepy to ship them outright because Kellin's married and has a daughter, so I do it in secret.

Whoops. Guess I spilled my secret. :P

Gifs like that make my little shippy heart very happy.

Seriously. I've been looking at it for a couple of minutes now.

If you want to see more pretty Kellin, I'd suggest you look up the video for King of a Day, which is from Pierce the Veil ft. Kellin, and it has him in a suit (every boy is pretty in a suit) and being pretty in general.

Enough from me, I really gotta go read some Henry Jenkins. Bye y'all.

I have a rule.

Okay, I have more than one, but this is the one that made me think I wanted to post something.

I'm supposed to have had breakfast before 2, and let Sir know when I've had it. (I'll just go with Sir for my blog. He's my boyfriend but let's keep the names to a minimum.)

It may sound like a strange rule, but I tended to have breakfast around dinner time - I'd honestly just forget to eat - and apparently it's not good for you if you do that. Apparently, eating dinner/breakfast and topping up the calories you're supposed to eat all day with munchies and a bag of crisps later on is not the proper way to eat. :P

Today is the first day in a couple of weeks that I didn't follow the rule - I told Sir about it, he said it was okay, but still. It's kinda messing with my head. On the one hand, I know it's okay, but on the other, it's still not following the rule, y'know?

The strangest part of this, to me, is how quickly it took. It's only been a couple of weeks. I spent years trying to get brushing my teeth in my daily routine and within a few weeks breakfast is a part of it. Maybe it's because I want to take good care of myself for him? I don't know. Somehow, being ordered to do something is less infuriating and more effective in making me take care of myself. Which is necessary anyway, because for how good I can be with organizing things for other people, organizing my own life and making sure I'm fine is something that is beyond me.

If it works, it works, right?

Still can't believe I need someone to tell me how to get through a day like a normal person would, or to finish my study instead of curl up in a corner and cry at the first sign of stress, but at least I have that person.

Maybe this wasn't such a good first real post anyway, but I've got it all typed up now. There's gonna be more about my way of living - while I'm happy with it, it still boggles my mind sometimes - but let's leave it here for now.

I need to have breakfast. :P

Obligatory introduction post

Hi, I'm Irene, or Meova as I still like to be called on the internet. Right now, I study English (focusing on American culture) in the Netherlands and I work in a fast food joint, of which you will undoubtedly hear stories here.
My life is not particularly interesting, but I do have things I want to say. I'm aiming to get a PhD someday so I can study gender roles, adolescent culture and participatory culture. I'm a major fangirl and I love my bands to death (mostly All Time Low, Panic! at the Disco, some Fall Out Boy and lately there's Sleeping With Sirens). One of my goals in life is showing people that even when one does not fit the norm, someone can still be normal/functional - I'm bisexual, submissive, trying to figure out how much the label poly applies to me, 
and I like watching teen shows and reading Young Adult novels. I'd say I'm perfectly normal but that's not really the case :P
Then again, no one who studies the same thing I do at my university is completely sane, so we're all in the same boat.
I'll just see what comes of this. Sometimes I need a space to vent or to speak my mind. I hope this can be that place.